Palace Brothers

Musical Group

Forlisteners of intimate, melancholic folk and alt-country; fans of will oldham and lo-fi songwriting.
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The Profile

Will Oldham is an American singer-songwriter who has recorded under names including Palace Brothers, Palace Music and Bonnie 'Prince' Billy.

Reviews cite Will Oldham as the songwriter behind Palace Brothers; Days in the Wake is dated 1994 in the review; There Is No-One What Will Take Care Of You is described as an early/debut record from the 1990s. Reviews compare his work to Nick Drake and Woody Guthrie and emphasize themes of solitude, abandonment and stark folk/country arrangements.

Two DeBaser reviews praise Palace Brothers (Will Oldham) for sparse, haunting folk and country-inflected songwriting. Reviewers highlight Days in the Wake (1994) and the debut There Is No-One What Will Take Care Of You as landmark, melancholic records. Themes noted: solitude, abandonment, Biblical and Americana imagery; comparisons to Nick Drake and Woody Guthrie appear.

Notable Quotes

❝ "There Is No-One What Will Take Care Of You" is one of the most beautiful and important debuts of the nineties.

❝ If there's one artist who more than any other can express through music the malaise of living, the sense of human solitude, the nakedness in the face of emotions and feelings, that artist is undoubtedly Will Oldham.

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